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Exactly and Arizona tural out of that terri- brick would weigh 55 pounds, wr\rth lias returned from a trip to the south- product going MOAIM LETTUCE is assured of sale when it reaches $18,189.60. If the reader should find ern of the state. Mr. Dinsmore tory FIRST TO MARKET part of a cubic there are the market.—Tonopah Times. a chunk go.ld foot In size, The Record-Courier says the asparagus growers don’t It home. It NEVADA SOLONS this spring, and carry wo.uld weigh AND OWNER HUNTERS looking for big crops EDITOR; LION SELKIRK | have ■■IT ■. Moapa valley agriculturists a trifle over half to ton, worth their shipping season will begin short- AS 4MTXCE OF 001.0 $397,. AT SARDNER- association In ENTIRE* IN THE POSTOFFtCE the only cooperative 856.16.— Exchange. CLASS MATTER he ly. VILLf. NEVADA AS SLCONO BONUS Nevada and they will shipping FAVOR a fed- IN NEVADA While in he instituted EVERY FRIDAY MORNING Salt Lake Moapa An ounce of gold is worth $20.67 the POLISHED lettuce by the carload t(\ this I've wanted to cl$>: eral-state Inspection bureau, und Things Paralyze and other eastern within world over. A cubic inch would weigh pit Yr«r Senators Pittman City points two or banker SMhiI|lin- R«ie---J3.00 S. It. Dunham, crack lion hunter fnited States Key he said, will be functioning in the home-town by depositing weeks, to S. C. Dlns- a fraction over 11 ounces and would I I,. Oiltiie and Congressman two according he ex- a certified check of the United States biological survey, anil Tasker three weeks. It will mean, "with him In nty own state commissioner of for^d and be wor tli more than $228. A gold I Charles U Richards, Nevadas' delega- tnore, name for and tell him BARBARIANS and his pack of trained hounds will who that virtually every agrlcul- $176,000 nut how of ad- and weights and measures, plained. hrick the size of an ordinary building March 1st to tion in congress, are all in favor drugs I the money. so-called dark come to Nevada about got Not since the ages, for Wqrid War a against mountain justed compensation the Record, sturt campaign maintains Philadelphia and each has in lions which prey on mountain sheep, veterans promised has the civilized world produced a letters to a Carson ex-service man to -TMt match cattle and horses, says an exchange. piece of official barbarity to bill his MNCHESTE* K. R. Sans, Nevada director of the give an adjusted compensation execution record ■w STORK the first lethal gas of the Carson United States biological survey, re- support, says Appeal. in this country. “Nevada Is the first front Pittman wrqte, as is generally well lake human life by this ceived this information yesterday state to is in favor of ad- You he hearil.v Tell na- known, We the the of the Kaibab means, and we hope it will be superintendent what Exactly and Arizona. justed compensation and will do the New Haven Journal tional forest In Utah last." observes he can to facilitate the passage of the who Dunham has killed many lions on the Courier. The three physicians the bill. execution of Gee Jon. a Kaibab reserve during past year. watched this declared in his letter Will Cost Oddle it will Senator How Much that Dunham go convicted of a tong murder, It is expected Chinese that he would do likewise and give the wretch first to Ely. Outfitting there as soon agree that the unfortunate in will work the bill his suppqrt when it comes up into unconsciouness within a as the snows melt he lapsed and he voted for the ■NINCHtSTH near Toiyabe Dome the senate says second after a spray of liquid hydro- To,lyabe range measure in the congress, even vot- turned into the stone where cougars recently killed num- cyanic gas was the veto of President on the high ing to override of death-chamber. The movement of the bers of mountain sheep We have the modern method in the Harding. adopted six minutes afterward, ranges, l.ater he may hunt head fc\r some Richards wrote that work in our on Mat Rate Press dispatch Monitor and Toqulma na- Congressman doing repair shop says an Associated adjoining with the due, he is naturally sympathetic scene. was probably tional forest ranges. This method been from tile that he feels that “we qwe Charges. ha$ adopted muscular re- of in Ne- Idea and the doctors explained, to While the number lions the boys of the World War an adjusted has been found This explanation, vada is estimated at not more than all the and action after death." have by leading shops Albany that these compensation.” “All parties however, does not suit the 100, Director Sans declares to the car owner. to pay," he adds, “and up to very satisfactory which reminds us that "there do enormous damage to live stock promised Jqurnal, the has wlu n the Reese the present hour obligation Isn't such 'muscular reaction' annually. Especially in Tools acci- nqt been liquidated." Dependable are killed instantly by River valley at the foot of the Toiyabe perscpis will find on when a condemned prisoner have the killers been ac- You can do better work and you We use Flat Rate Schedules dent nor mountains, FROM Repair declares the state ANTELOPE TBEK in \\ inchester is electrocuted." in fart, tive. Reports from ranchers pleasure and satisfaction using Philadelphia Record, "there is not a that it is almost impossible to rear WINTER FEED GROl'N'D tools—with some they’re a hobby. DODGE, BUICK, FORD, CHEVROLET. this single point of justification colts in that section. A mountain lion "There is a when of the standards re- lethal-gas innovation." lies in wait at a water hole and Antelope of Washoe county are trek- Sixty years exacting that even Edgar have terror in this thing a colt comes near, springs to his back, ing back from their winter range in quired in rifle manufacture qualified avers the of tools which are Let us estimate work. We can tell you Allan Poe could not equal." sinks its teeth In the neck of the ani- the High Rock canyon country to their Winchester to make a line your which says neighboring Public Ledger, mal and rides It until it drops. summer feeding grounds, according to second to none in quality and dependability. the exact amount of bill before we com- tlie Nevada your of the grim scence at Experts declare that the menu of a E. R. Sans, Nevada direrity of the this week and let us show you the mence. is all And we abso- prison lion Is approximately one animal—a U. S. biological survey who returned Come in That you pay. not in a prison which are found only in “Gee Jon did pass horse, a calf or a mountain sheep— to Reno Saturday alter an inspection many features all our work. sky. He was not the lutely guarantee yard, under the open a week. Horse meat, Sans says, Is trip to the Oregon line. Winchester tools. he might hear permitted to die where lion's favorite food. Only when the Some 700 to a 1000 of the little ani- He died shut away a human voice. supply becomes scarce does the killer mals are nqw quartered in the Swan dog dies in the from men. as the stray resort to cattle and mountain sheep. Lake country, Sans was told by trap- death-cage. He breath- lions rarely of pqund-kceper's Fearing human beings, pers and ranchers in the vicinity Chisel — Made from walls. No mur- Winchester INN ed in his death molest domestic sheep. Oeissner, the northern m03t point in MOTOR to him as he lay from a solid of cruci- mur of voices came Each lioness raises an average of Washoe county, 233 mile, from Reno. piece waiting, waiting. In strapt, helpless, three cuhs a year, biologists say. Sans made the long trip qver rough ble steel from tip of blade Motor Sales walls, Heiberg Company a hissing from the "There is California where the number of mohn- roads by automobile on an official the socket. Hick- of the hooded through like the Satan’s hiss be now : Winchester Block Planes— Phone 581 (Jardnerville, Nevada tain lions is said to approximately visit to state and federal trappers ory handle, leather capped. The Invisible Thing strikes. the cobra. 1000, an average of 200 is killed yerly. engaged in coyote poisoning opera- For cutting across Assortment of patterns and is the legal death made and “Such So great Is the damage done by these tions at Massacre, Eagle ille, Dlessner, grain and for end work. 85c to $1.40. State of Nevada. blade widths. provided by the shattered marauders that the Rock, Clear Creek and steel. exe- widely I.eadville, High Cutters of special sought a way to make “Nevada federal government lonstantlv keeps Squaw Valley. He said that the work Patented side adjustment more humane. In her seeking cutions hunters on their trail. In addition, extermination had been and of coyote for exact work. stumbled Into new refinements state. big bounties are offered by the highly gratifying, ranchers declaring Prices 85c to $2.70 depths of cruelty.” Mountain lions are known to op- that numbers of these predatqry ani- Winchester Solid Center Chronicle-Telegraph The Pittsburgh a of territory. kinds PHARMACY erate over wide range cut down materially Bits—For all THE STAR is to(\ mals had been Winchester Hammers Auger the other hand, believes “it on After making a kill in a certain range since the beginning of the poisoning Files of work.
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